Re:Living in a box??? (Score 1)

not according to my geo 401 prof :)...

Do me a favor, and tell him that he's an idiot for me. You might be able to pin the age of the earth to two significant figures (albeit imprecisely), but three is just absurd.

And this guy is teaching science!! You would think that a university professor would have enough brains to know that the margin of error is greater than the number of significant digits he's quoting. Hey, I know, I think the earth is actually 4.5767855 years old.

Actually, I would be most amused if you asked him what the margin of error in the number is. I bet he can't even tell you.